Where did the idea come from that support for a second New Deal means support for Jim Crow?

[Lee-Lee]

6. It's the common strategy of picking one thing to demonize

It's kind of a hybrid of the straw man fallacy and the boogeyman fallacy tactics.

If there was segregation during the New Deal and you can't attack the idea of what people are actually proposing you just pick the worst thing you can possibly associate with it and say that's what they must mean, trying to poison the idea by associating it with the most extreme bad thing even when you know that's not at all what people intent.

If someone wants to attack the idea of a new New Deal but can't argue the merits they just associate the idea with the worst possible thing then can tie to it and then shift the debate.

You see it all the time, sadly from our side of gen aisle as much as the other sometimes.


It's like people who oppose single payer health care immediately rushing to point at rationing in single payer systems or so-called "death panels" and shifting the debate only to that, ignoring all the other positive aspects. Then they make the debate all about that one thing.

Or what you see on here with the gun Prohibitionist crowd, if a person says they support concealed carry the anti-gun crowd immediately make the entire debate about George Zimmerman, 15,000,000+ people with CCW permits in the country and they reduce the debate to one dude because he's the easy target and they can easily demonize him instead of arguing the actual merits of the laws and policies.